Current Member
Diana Kim
Hans Kohn Member
Affiliation
Historical Studies
Field of Study
Politics
Home Institution
Georgetown University
Website
Diana Kim’s research addresses modern state formation, colonialism & the political construction of vices & vulnerability. At the IAS, she will be writing a book on untouchability, which explores the making of a transnational world of untouchable groups in East, Southeast & South Asia over the past 200 years and its hidden contours today.
Dates at IAS
Member
School of Historical Studies
– current
Degrees
University of Chicago
Ph.D.
2013
Honors
2021
Co-Winner, Giovanni Sartori Book Award, American Political Science Association
2020
Silvers Grant, New York Review of Books/Robert B. Silvers Foundation
Appointments
Georgetown University
2016
Assistant Professor
Harvard University
2013–2016
Prize Fellow in Economics, History, and Politics